Fuzzy Systems in AI: An Overview

In his book Mental Spaces, Fauconnier develops a powerful theory of human knowledge representation and linguistic processing that handles a variety of problems in linguistics and the philosophy of language in a simple, uniform, and intuitively plausible way. However, he has little to say about the structure or general role of mental spaces in cognition. The present paper proposes that mental spaces are a means of organizing knowledge in support of a general inference method, simulative reasoning, found in various guises both in logic and in Artificial Intelligence. The structuring required to fulfill this role allows us to make a wide variety of predictions which seem to be borne out by evidence from natural language. In attributing a specific function to mental spaces, this paper suggests that the theory of mental spaces defines a potentially significant paradigm for knowledge representation in Artificial Intelligence.

Price, consumption, and production influence global food estimation. Food consumption and food production needs improving affordability, government policy and expert proposition in decision making. Expert have developed a scenario combining direct weather impact on key grain producing regions, indirect impact through crop pathogens, consequences for markets, and stock of global food. Global food production tended to increase, meanwhile consumption under production. In Indonesia, production is under consumption. It is anomaly by global situation and world condition. Government policy is tariff, export, and import. Export food influenced by price food commodity is not stable, meanwhile food import tended to increase because by national food consumption increasing demand. Government policy and expert proposition to modern society, need Expert System is increasing rapidly. In Artificial Intelligence, Expert System is a computer system that emulates the decision making ability of a human expert. There are two reasoning strategies in Expert System: Forward Chaining and Backward Chaining. The aim of this paper is to identify which reasoning strategy system (Forward Chaining). This paper focus on the concept of knowledge representation in Artificial Intelligence and implementing of Forward Chaining on Food Affordability. Food Affordability used to planning of food in the future. Finally, Inference using Forward Chaining on Food Affordability, the result it is good and can be used to planning and policy on national food.

Selective attention refers to the ability to selectively act upon relevant information at the expense of irrelevant information. Yet, in many experimental tasks, what happens to the representation of the irrelevant information is still debated. Typically, 2 approaches to distractor processing have been suggested, namely distractor inhibition and distractor-based retrieval. However, it is also typical that both processes are hard to disentangle. For instance, in the negative priming literature (for a review Frings, Schneider, & Fox, 2015) this has been a continuous debate since the early 1980s. In the present study, we attempted to prove that both processes exist, but that they reflect distractor processing at different levels of representation. Distractor inhibition impacts stimulus representation, whereas distractor-based retrieval impacts mainly motor processes. We investigated both processes in a distractor-priming task, which enables an independent measurement of both processes. For our argument that both processes impact different levels of distractor representation, we estimated the exponential parameter (τ) and Gaussian components (μ, σ) of the exponential Gaussian reaction-time (RT) distribution, which have previously been used to independently test the effects of cognitive and motor processes (e.g., Moutsopoulou & Waszak, 2012). The distractor-based retrieval effect was evident for the Gaussian component, which is typically discussed as reflecting motor processes, but not for the exponential parameter, whereas the inhibition component was evident for the exponential parameter, which is typically discussed as reflecting cognitive processes, but not for the Gaussian parameter. (PsycINFO Database Record

This article presents a state-of-the-art review of recent advances aimed at transforming traditional Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) into a more intelligent, data-driven, and semantically enriched process. As engineered systems grow in complexity, conventional FMEA methods, which are largely manual, document-centric, and expert-dependent, have become increasingly inadequate for addressing the demands of modern systems engineering. We examine how techniques from Artificial Intelligence (AI), including machine learning and natural language processing, can transform FMEA into a more dynamic, data-driven, intelligent, and model-integrated process by automating failure prediction, prioritisation, and knowledge extraction from operational data. In parallel, we explore the role of ontologies in formalising system knowledge, supporting semantic reasoning, improving traceability, and enabling cross-domain interoperability. The review also synthesises emerging hybrid approaches, such as ontology-informed learning and large language model integration, which further enhance explainability and automation. These developments are discussed within the broader context of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and function modelling, showing how AI and ontologies can support more adaptive and resilient FMEA workflows. We critically analyse a range of tools, case studies, and integration strategies, while identifying key challenges related to data quality, explainability, standardisation, and interdisciplinary adoption. By leveraging AI, systems engineering, and knowledge representation using ontologies, this review offers a structured roadmap for embedding FMEA within intelligent, knowledge-rich engineering environments.

This article reviews approaches based on artificial intelligence (AI), which contributes to the security of cyber environments. We examine existing techniques using several indicators: explainability, performance and robustness. These indicators have been chosen based on their importance for user acceptance and interpretability of the approach. Indeed, the AI field is vast and is divided into several sub-domains. The two most well-known sub-domains are symbolic AI (representation of knowledge, rules and operations based on symbols) and numeric AI (calculations and algorithms using numeric information, focusing on the result, not the representation of knowledge). While most approaches investigated come from numeric AI, we conclude on the need for hybrid AI systems, combining the advantages of both AI sub-fields while maximising the protection provided against cyberattacks.

Artificial intelligence and robots may progressively take a more and more prominent place in our daily environment. Interestingly, in the study of how humans perceive these artificial entities, science has mainly taken an anthropocentric perspective (i.e., how distant from humans are these agents). Considering people’s fears and expectations from robots and artificial intelligence, they tend to be simultaneously afraid and allured to them, much as they would be to the conceptualisations related to the divine entities (e.g., gods). In two experiments, we investigated the proximity of representation between artificial entities (i.e., artificial intelligence and robots), divine entities and natural entities (i.e., humans and other animals) at both an explicit (Study 1) and an implicit level (Study 2). In the first study, participants evaluated these entities explicitly on positive and negative attitudes. Hierarchical clustering analysis showed that participants’ representation of artificial intelligence, robots and divine entities were similar, while the representation of humans tended to be associated with that of animals. In the second study, participants carried out a word/non-word decision task including religious semantic-related words and neutral words after the presentation of a masked prime referring to divine entities, artificial entities and natural entities (or a control prime). Results showed that after divine and artificial entity primes, participants were faster to identify religious words as words compared to neutral words arguing for a semantic activation. We conclude that people make sense of the new entities by relying on already familiar entities and in the case of artificial intelligence and robots, people appear to draw parallels to divine entities.

Levels of representation in the electrophysiology of speech perception

Urgency of the research of artificial intelligence research in a digital society presents numerous causal changes, among them: space research, biotechnology, nanotechnology, digital technology, etc. The implications for human beings and human civilisation are significant as they affect a number of already existing contemporary issues such as economics, politics, ethics, law, psychology, conflictology, sociology, and ecology. Anthropology has to return to the existence of human beings in a society of artificial intelligence, consciousness and even the physical body. The study conceptualises artificial intelligence as a factor of ecosystem growth in the context of technological, ontological, and anthropological dimensions. The research objectives: 1) to theorise artificial intelligence as a potential and resource for use in all sectors of the socioeconomic sphere in the context of technological dimensions; 2) to clarify the convergence of artificial intelligence and its main components in the context of ontological dimensions; 3) to reveal the role of artificial intelligence in enhancing the digitalisation of society and humans in the context of anthropological dimensions. In the research we are guided by the works of scholars who have studied and are studying the problems of artificial intelligence as a complex social, economic, and cultural phenomenon: R. Andriukaitienė, N. Boström, A. Vance, P. Diamandis, S. Kotler, P. Dickson, L. Kai-Fu, and K. Kell, K. Kell, and others. Research methodology. The theory of artificial intelligence is a complex multidisciplinary science, which is located at the junction of economics, sociology, computer science, mathematics, psychology. Summarizing the processes of interdisciplinary interaction of artificial intelligence, we note that its study requires an interdisciplinary approach based on the synthesis of scientific knowledge, as revealing the content and principles of functioning of a complex invariant system of artificial intelligence. To analyze the modern model of artificial intelligence, it is necessary to apply a systematic institutional-evolutionary approach. By analysing different methodological approaches, it is necessary to acknowledge the presence of an anthropogenic component, as the methodology of scientific research is based on the method of information-anthropogenic analysis based on the fundamental position that no artificial intelligence processes are possible without information/data as an object and human as a subject of cognition. In addition, the following methods were used: induction, deduction, sublimation, synergetics, evolutionary historicism, modelling, and forecasting. The result of the research. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term used to define technologies/ engineering systems that emulate human intelligence, linking to neurophysiology, robotics, psychology (pattern recognition, modelling of psychological processes), transhumanism, cybernetics (computing power to find patterns in large data sets). Artificial Intelligence has been defined as a software-engineered system that is capable of influencing the environment with varying degrees of autonomy, producing results (predictions, recommendations, decisions) for a specific set of goals for the digitalisation of society. On the other hand, artificial intelligence causes many problems that are seen as cyber/virtual addiction, loss of reality, increased surveillance, loss of protocol control, privacy issues, cybersecurity, etc. The convergence of large data with artificial intelligence has become the single most important development shaping the future of social institutions in the digital society and the prospects for realising potential opportunities. Thanks to the latest digital technologies, advances in software engineering, and evolving artificial intelligence, there are both new perspectives for solving the most complex problems of modern civilization and new challenges in the technological, ontological, and anthropological dimensions.

Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning research that deals with learning different levels of representation and abstraction in order to move Machine Learning closer to Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Metaplasticity are Artificial Learning Algorithms based on modelling higher level properties of biological plasticity: the plasticity of plasticity itself, so called Biological Metaplasticity. Artificial Metaplasticity aims to obtain general improvements in Machine Learning based on the experts generally accepted hypothesis that the Metaplasticity of neurons in Biological Brains is of high relevance in Biological Learning. This paper presents and discuss the results of applying different Artificial Metaplasticity implementations in Multilayer Perceptrons at artificial neuron learning level. To illustrate their potential, a relevant application that is the objective of state-of-the-art research has been chosen: the diagnosis of breast cancer data from the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database. It then concludes that Artificial Metaplasticity also may play a high relevant role in Deep Learning.

Dual coding of knowledge in the human brain.

The thriving contemporary form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning is often represented sensationally in popular media as a semi-mystical technology. Machine learning systems are frequently ascribed anthropomorphic capacities for learning, emoting and reasoning which, it is suggested, might lead to the alleviation of humanity’s woes. One critical reaction to such sensational proclamations has been to focus on the mundane reality of contemporary machine learning as mere inductive prediction based on statistical generalizations, albeit with surprisingly powerful abilities (Pasquinelli 2017). While the deflationist reaction is a necessary reply to sensationalist agitation, adequate comprehension of modern AI cannot be achieved while neglecting its material and social context. One does not have to subscribe wholeheartedly to the social construction of technology thesis1 to allow that the development and evolution of technologies are influenced by social factors. For AI, the most important aspect of the current social context is arguably capital, which increasingly dominates AI research and production. One former computer science professor describes a “giant sucking sound of [AI] academics going into industry” (Metz 2017). This paper introduces capital’s theory of AI as utility and initiates a discussion on its social consequences. First, I discuss utilities and their infrastructures and introduce a few critical thoughts on the topic. Second, I situate modern AI by way of a brief history. Third, I detail capital’s view of AI as a utility and the technical details underpinning it. Fourth, I sketch how AI as a utility frames a social problematic beyond the important issues of algorithmic bias and the automation of work. I do so by extrapolating from one consequence of AI as a utility which multiple capitalist firms predict: the curation of human subjectivities.

The multiresolutional approach for representation of intelligent systems with NIST-RCS Architecture leads to a number of mathematical problems related to categorical models associated with the multiresolutional representation. One of these problems is investigation of quasi-commutative diagrams that are mathematical formalization of relations between levels of multiresolutional representation. All levels in the multiresolutional representation of an intelligent system are representations of this system with different values of resolution. Relations between different levels of the representation are expressed by functors between the categories of the representation. This dependency is associated with morphisms in the categories of representation that correspond to different levels of resolution. This association is expressed by diagrams. This paper is focused upon the mathematical formalization of the problem of synthesis of a behavior generator of high level with quasi-commutative diagram of control for given restricted behavior morphism of low level.

Previous research on the representation of artificial intelligence (AI) in science fiction (SF) film has largely focused on the Global North. Little is known about how filmmakers from the Souths envision and portray AI and how their creative processes and outputs relate to specific conditions of film production, socio-political realities, and global power imbalances, as well as personal experiences and attitudes toward AI. This paper aims to address this gap by presenting the findings of an exploratory interview study with Latin American filmmakers who have dealt with AI in their films. The qualitative text analysis of 10 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 11 participants from 6 countries reveals that their cinematic visions of AI differ significantly from those prevalent in Western SF: The Latin American filmmakers predominantly associate AI with social control, surveillance, labor exploitation, data colonialism, and the abuse of power by (authoritarian) governments or powerful tech corporations—issues that decolonial scholars have emphasized in their critiques of AI. However, the participants’ visions are not primarily inspired by these academic debates but by their lived experiences. The filmmakers’ strong engagement with everyday life and socio-political conditions, rather than distant or unattainable technological scenarios, can, thus, be considered a distinctive feature of the Latin American approach. This is further reflected in their use of particular esthetic concepts and strategies, such as retrofuturism, which enable them to navigate budgetary constraints and other structural inequalities that limit their visibility and their potential to actively shape technological visions and futures through film.

Detecting changes in aerial views of man-made structures

To perform a task that differs from a previously performed one, it is necessary to prepare for the new task as well as to disable the task set of the preceding task. In a series of three experiments we examined whether preparation for a task shift implies a direct update of the task set that is carried over from the preceding trial. To this end, in Experiments 1 and 2 we factorially varied the relation of the task in trial n, first, to the task in trial n - 1 (intertask relation) and, second, to the task that was precued for trial n (precue-to-task relation). Invalid precues resulted in substantial costs, which increased with longer precueing intervals. However, this increasing effect of the precue-to-task relation was not accompanied by a decreasing effect of the intertask relation. Furthermore, both effects had different qualitative properties. These findings suggest that two tasks can be represented concurrently but on two different levels of representation. In Experiment 3 we observed that the persistence of the effect of the intertask relation depends on the possibility that task repetitions can occur in trials in which a task shift is precued. This suggests that the persistence of the effect of the intertask relation is controlled in a context-sensitive way.